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maps_or_guitars

CLICK IT CLICK ALL THE SHINY BUTTONS

Aug 30, 2009 01:07

So yeah. I'm experimenting with this Amie Street stuff. Someone, within seconds, recommended Paper Valentines to somebody... so that's cool. Everybody go log in and download the songs while they're free! Review them! Recommend them! All that shit.

I have no idea how to get the player to look right in elljay. Ugh.
Oh hey, it worked.

ETA Well, ( Read more... )

faster pussycat shill shill, rock, pomo

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mekkasimian August 30 2009, 05:19:30 UTC

FOR MEK, FLASH PLAYERS OFTEN NOT DISPLAY IN "FRIENDS VIEW", BUT WILL SHOW WHEN CLICK ON "COMMENT THREAD": SUCH WAS CASE WITH THIS ONE.

MEK SUPPOSE WILL HAVE TO CHECK OUT WHAT UP WITH NEW PLACE...

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maps_or_guitars August 30 2009, 12:51:47 UTC

That sometimes happens with me too. What do you think of the song spread? I'd started with eight, and dropped two; I'd been thinking of dropping Dolls but decided it was strong enough to be the weird dodgy cool second song of the set.

mekkasimian August 30 2009, 15:27:33 UTC

MEK GUESS SPREAD AS "SET" NO SO IMPORTANT IF NOT ABLE BUY AS SET (OR LISTENER IS BOOKING AGENT!). GOOD TO DISPLAY VARIETY TEMPOS, THOUGH (AS WITH "GOOD FOR BUSINESS", THOUGH MEK STILL FEEL IS VERY ROUGH)

HARD TO GO BACK THROUGH CONSTANT (IF SPORADIC) EFFORTS IN HINDSIGHT AND SAY "THAT ONE IS PART OF ALBUM... THAT ONE... NOT THAT ONE..."

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maps_or_guitars August 30 2009, 18:03:33 UTC

I'll post more thought on this later, but it's a very interesting experiment.

The way Amie Street users promote the music is on a song-by-song basis. So while it is easy to buy the whole album, the site is most conducive to promoting singles. That's encouraging to me, since it's really how I write songs anyway. I'll be curious to see how those "dodgy, rough" songs do in this medium. On the one hand, Paper Valentines does well: on the other, "Clothes" is also performing well, and it's a song I only ever did one final mix of before the master got fuxx0red.

Approaching the single, then: Paper Valentines is pretty ideal that way, and I think it's carrying the set, but also I've gotten some good feedback on the second half of the set being more "asskicky."

I'm curious to see what'll stick to the wall. Is polish necessary for this audience? I really don't know yet.

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